Termcap (was Re: FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/27/2010 1:10 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
[...]
> Back in the day, FilePro would search two termcaps, /etc/termcap,
> or the file in the TERMCAP environment variable, then the
> appl/fp/termcap file.  This was to get around the 1024 character
> limitation on the termcap entries for a particular terminal.  I
> think it merged the two, generally getting the key codes, cursor
> control, etc. from the first, and the FP specific P? and L? codes
> were define in the fp/termcap file.

filePro still uses both /etc/termcap (or $TERMCAP) and $PFPROG/fp/termcap. 
It will use all entries from both termcap files (as opposed to some from 
one, and others from the other), and anything in filePro's termcap will 
override the "normal" termcap.

[...]

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Kenneth Brody